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[[Assemblee Chretienne de Montmagny, QC|Assemblee Chretienne Assemblée Chrétienne de Montmagny]], Montmagny, ChaudiereChaudière-Appalaches, Southeast [[Quebec|Québec]], [[Canada]] is a French open brethren assembly founded in 1962. <div style='text-align: justify;'>Forty miles downriver from Québec City, on the southside of the Saint Lawrence, lies the town of Montmagny. It was to this location in 1962 that the Lord led Fernand and Yolande Saint-Louis, following their graduation from Bethel Bible School. While working in the Bible Correspondence department of the school, they had been impressed by the many hundreds of courses that had come in from Montmagny, a place where there was no evangelical testimony of any kind.</div> <div style='text-align: justify;'> Within two years, there were between 35-50 persons meeting in their apartment and, by the mid-sixties, eleven families were “in fellowship” in the newly-formed Assemblée chrétienne de Montmagny. A year later, total attendance numbered 64 people, if they were all to come at once. Of these, 37 were children. Impressive numbers coming a decade prior to the growth-spurt years which began in the late seventies all around the province.</div> <div style='text-align: justify;'> A meeting place was constructed and opened on the first Sunday in January 1966. The existence of a Protestant chapel in this Catholic stronghold where “everybody knew everybody” created quite a stir and a challenge. A lady coming to the Gospel meeting “in the dark” requested that the lights be put off in front of the building upon her arrival. The brethren, in charge of greeting the people at the door, did exactly that. When they saw her getting out of the car, they turned off the outside lights and let her in!</div> <div style='text-align: justify;'>Following a two-year absence (1967-1969), during which Fernand and his family were in Montreal serving with Sermons from Science, they returned to Montmagny for a brief period of time, ultimately leaving the area in 1972. By the late 1970s, attendance was in the seventies. Since then, the assembly fell on hard times. Two groups hived off, one to La Pocatière, 55km to the east, and the other to St-Juste, 80km south toward the US border. A difference of opinion in the early 90s left the assembly discouraged and divided. By then, many of the younger ones had moved away for schooling or to find employment. Only a handful of believers remained.</div>
==Locations==
* home meeting 1962-1989+